WHIMS: Philadelphia Native Makes “Instagram for Words”

Text has long relied on its visual impact to effectively communicate a message. But in an increasingly visually-centric world, it’s hard to come up with creative ways to deliver text messages–short of a meme or gif generator.

Whims social app satisfies that gap.

Developed by Philadelphia native, Alex Khorram, Whims transforms your plain text messages into colorful and creative images that you can share with your friends, the Whims network, and your own social networks.

The Whims app is pretty easy to navigate and functions similarly to any other text editor. You can easily highlight words and change the fonts, colors, styles and sizes of each word–or, if you prefer, you can utilize style presets like Hans Solo, E-a-g-l-e-s EAGLES, Charlie Brown and Barack Obama.

So if you want to generate classier memes, or simply send a fun message to your friends, check out this local app.